Posted on 02/27/2015 5:35:37 PM PST by Steelfish
Trigonometry Is Racist! KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON February 27, 2015
An African-American scholar says that emphasis on STEM education is bad for blacks. Earlier today on Sirius XM Urban View, an African-American talk station, the guest was Daryl Scott, president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.
The conversation turned to STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — education, and the origins of the ongoing push to encourage institutions and students to focus on those subjects. Can you guess what happened?
In 1983, the guest explained, a commission empaneled by the secretary of education issued a report titled “A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform.” In a memorable phrase, it warned of “a rising tide of mediocrity” in the nation’s public schools. That phrase, he said, was a “euphemism.” A euphemism for what? “For us — for African Americans.” There is nothing that happens in these United States that will not be impugned as secret racism. Nothing.
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Seemed obvious up on the board when the prof explained it, but was a blank to me staring at the problem much too late at night.
I knew I was not going to be a theorist, but a nuts and bolts guy, so I just wanted to survive the class. Unfortunately, I needed the math for two following courses in electromagnetics..............
Last night I watched the old (2009) PBS/Nova special, “The Great Robot Race”, on YouTube. It is about the DARPA competition for totally autonomous (after the course waypoints are input) robotic ground vehicles. The competing teams came from universities, corporations and individuals. Partway through the program I noticed how very few girls were part of the engineering teams. That led to the quest to see ANY Blacks on any of the engineering teams. I saw none.
It is unfortunate that the media always promotes athletes & musicians as “Black Leaders”. The few exceptions are “community organizers” and “civil rights leaders”. Why no TV mini-series about George Washington Carver?
In the engineering department where I worked there were three Black male engineers. Two were African immigrants and the third was a former Marine officer. None were “down for the struggle”. All were simply capable men out to succeed in their chosen technical profession.
And we spend trillion dollars on a bankrupt public education whose principal beneficiaries are the teachers and their unions.
wow. JnJ does all kinds of charities for minorities encouragement to STEM careers... this is hillarious that this most gay and PC company is now labeled racist.
pretty much this might be the issue: the union powers that be do not want to be responsible for their failures, so they say helping blacks in STEM careers is offending and racist. We had it already coming with calling it racist to tell blacks to not do abortion and not be gay...
You are very close, Grasshopper.
You can't wrap your mind around trig when your brain is infused with reefer.
Point taken. Maybe I rely a bit too much on technology.
All of the professions you describe require mathematical and technological skills to make them happen. Even farming requires higher technical knowledge than ever before (seen a combine lately? They have GPS guidance, yield prediction software, crop and soil moisture sensors..etc.).
The bottom end jobs that used to allow our kids to avoid STEM subjects are disappearing: off shoring, robotics, illegal labor, etc. are killing the fabrication/ manufacturing sector jobs and pretty much everything else.
If you care about your children’s future, help them, push them, tutor them if necessary but above all get them educated in today’s math, science, and computer skills.
Or just be prepared to keep them at home forever.
Amen. An increasing number of parents of black students are homeschooling, holding their children to high standards. And their children are achieving success.
WayneS is absolutely correct. It’s all about higher standards. Success involves hard work. If you want to excel in a subject, you have to study and work hard.
That’s why an increasing number of parents of “black” students are homeschooling now.
Yep! It is those darn white Anglo triangles.
"I've been lying about my income for several years; I figure I can afford an imaginary house in the Hamptons."
I have to say, “Doctor,” that what you posted is the most faulty piece of logic I’ve ever read on this forum.
That’s what you did.
No, I said hard work is necessary for success. And holding students to high standards helps, too.
You posted that anyone who answers "yes" to the question, "Can black students excel at the same rate as other students?" is a "deluded liberal nut who hates white people."
That makes no sense whatsoever.
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